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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 19 February 1856: 'I came here [Bournemouth] for a fortnight and have stayed a month. I have written a little, and read a good ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charles KingsleyHypatia - or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have written a little, and read a good deal, - the second volume of "Sir Charles Metcalfe's Life", which makes me look upon him as more of a hero than many whom Carlyl...Mrs Meyrick Charles KingsleyHypatia or New Foes with an Old FacePrint: Book
1800-1849'I mean to copy you out some lines of my [italics] hero [end italics], Mr Kingsley'Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charles Kingsley Print: Book
1850-1899'On the 21st February [1851] their [Alfred and Emily Tennyson's] diary reads: "We read Alton Locke"'.Alfred and Emily TennysonCharles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899Alfred Tennyson to Charles Kingsley (1853): 'Part of the conclusion [of Hypatia] seems to me particularly valuable. I mean the talk of the Christianized Jew to the cla...Alfred Tennyson Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a...Alfred Rawlings Charles Kingsley Print: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a...Pattie Stansfield Charles Kingsley Print: Book
1850-1899'The programme of selections from and papers on Kingsley was then proceeded with, C.E. Stansfield reading a paper on Kingsley as a religious leader and F.J. Edminson on a...Lilian Goadby Charles Kingsley Print: Book
1850-1899'On board the steamer between Marseilles and Malta, besides reading "Hypatia", which was "too highly coloured" for his taste, and re-reading "Tancred", and writing "more ...Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Charles KingsleyHypatiaPrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'I don’t think there was anything that I wasn’t allowed to read. It was only when I went to school to boarding school and all my friends were rea...Hilary Spalding Charles KingsleyThe Water BabiesPrint: Book
1850-18998 February 1875: 'We had an agreeable journey to Folkestone where we took ship [for china-collecting expedition in Europe] [...] I was driven below by the intense cold...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Charles KingsleyHerewardPrint: Book
1850-1899'a strange book, full of ability, chartism, some blasphemy and infidelity, but on the whole a useful book for the upper classes to read — not the lower'G. W. F. Howard, 7th Earl of Carlisle Charles KingsleyAlton LockePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 6 August 1851:

'I have read "The Saint's Tragedy". As a "work of art" it seems to me far superior to either "Alton L...		Charlotte Brontë Charles KingsleyThe Saint's Tragedy; or, the True Story of Elizabe...Print: Book
1900-1945'He [Joseph Conrad] would read to me for long periods and make birds and other things out of sheets of paper which he folded with great dexterity. [...] His choice of boo...Joseph Conrad Charles KingsleyThe Heroes: Greek FairytalesPrint: Book
1850-1899'You are right about Two Years Ago.'Robert Louis Stevenson Charles KingsleyTwo Years AgoPrint: Book
1900-1945Meeting held at Eynsham, Shinfield Rd., 20.XII.33.
E. Dorothy Brain in the chair

1. Minutes of last read & approved

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7....		Howard Smith Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945

Meeting held at Ashton Lodge :- 3. 7. 37.

Henry Marriage Wallis in the Chair.

1. Minutes of last read & approved


[...]

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Dorothy Brain Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book
1900-1945'I ... took an active part in the work of the [Old Meeting Church] and became a Sunday School teacher. Happily, the class of small boys I was called on to manage could be...Vero Walter Garratt Charles KingsleyunknownPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at Oakdene, Northcourt Avenue: 18. 3. 40. Sylvanus A. Reynolds in the chair
1. Minutes of last read and approved
2. We began our meeting w...		Elsie Sikes Charles KingsleyWestward Ho!Print: Book


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